Of course! What else could it be? After all, it isn’t as if Ibraheem Ahmed Al Bayati is a “far-right extremist” or something really dangerous like that.
An update on this story. “Texas Man Accused of Making Bomb Threat During Zoom Class,” by Cameron Langford, Courthouse News Service, September 8, 2020:
HOUSTON (CN) — A 19-year-old man arrested after he allegedly made a bomb threat against the University of Houston during an online lecture and voiced support for the Islamic State group will make his first appearance in federal court Tuesday.
Ibraheem Ahmed Al Bayati, of Richmond, Texas, told FBI agents it was all a joke after he was recorded in a Zoom videoconference Friday asking a University of Houston professor, according to a criminal complaint filed against the teen that day, “What does any of this have to do with the fact that UH is about to get bombed in a few days?”
Al Bayati is facing two counts of making threats. If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison and fined.
After making the threat, Al Bayati said “Dawlatul Islam Baqia,” Arabic for “Islamic State will remain,” drawing gasps from students on the call, FBI agent Keith Fogg wrote in an affidavit supporting Al Bayati’s charges.
“Al Bayati then held up his index finger and repeated ‘Dawlatul Islam Baqia.’ Based on my training and experience, Al Bayati’s gesture of holding up his index finger, which is often known as the ‘tawheed finger,’ is sometimes an indicator of radical Islamic ideology,” Fogg wrote….
“He admitted to being on the Zoom call, making the statements, and claimed that the whole thing was a joke, devised by him and a friend,” Fogg wrote in his affidavit.
Al Bayati identified himself on the Zoom video as Abu Qital al Jihadi al Mansur….
“After Al Bayati told him he had joined the class as ‘Abu Qital,’ the friend asked Al Bayati to ‘say some Arabic shit and leave lmaooooo,’” court records state.
Fogg also found text messages on Al Bayati’s phone in which he bragged to friends that he is known as an Islamic State recruiter, according to the complaint….
According to Al Bayati’s criminal complaint, he used social media to find Islamic State supporters in an unnamed foreign city….
Shirley Ann says
But Al Bayati is a Member of the Religion of Peace. GW BUSH ASSURED US & invited the whole Muslim world to come to America, a Few Days After 9/11/2001, just to prove to us Silly Americans that we were “BIGOTS”.
Al has no worries, GW still Believes that Islam means “PEACE”.
Goofy says
Whilst you can find a good deal of humour in the Bible humour has never been the strong side of the Koran.
mortimer says
Ibraheem Ahmed Al Bayati should be deprogrammed, but that will not happen, because Western countries are so far too timid to tell Muslims what all Koran scholars know, namely, that the Koran is of human origin.
Once jihadists see that the Koran is impossibly suspect and most probably of human origin, they cannot continue to be jihadists.
The historical and textual critiques of Islam are devastating to the belief in Islam. Half of Iranians no declare themselves no longer to be Muslim.
Rarely says
Non-Christians would say, of course, that the Bible is of human origin and once Christians see that they cannot continue to be Christians.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, how are you going to “deprogram” such a pious Muslim? Why would he care what the ‘filthy Infidels’ have to say?
J Morgan says
Bush can live safely away from the Muslim atrocities on his 1,500 acres in Texas or his 100,000 acres in Paraguay with his armed security. He doesn’t have to live with the consequences of his actions and his deceit. We, the American people and people all around the world are living with those consequences.
gravenimage says
The idea that George Bush is responsible for all Jihad is a bit of a stretch…
J Morgan says
GravenImage, my post was meant as a reply to Shirley Ann. I don’t blame Bush for jihad! I blame him for calling Islam a Religion of Peace and thereby misleading the masses. Also, he took us to Afghanistan and Iraq and stirred up a lot of hatred towards America. Remember all the abuse in Abu Grahib and the other prisons in Iraq. All under Bush’s watch.
gravenimage says
Certainly, George Bush was dead wrong about Islam being a religion of peace–this naivite did nothing to make us safer.
But the idea that Muslims hate us and want to murder us because of idiots putting panties on Jihadists’ heads is just silly. And our trying to create democracies in places like Iraq and Afghanistan was deeply foolish, but hardly evil.
Really, Islam is all about conquest of the Infidels. The idea that this is all due to Abu Ghraib and our routing the hideous Taliban is absurd. 9/11 *preceded* any response to it.
J Morgan says
Some of what happened in the prisons of Iraq was evil. They were piling naked bodies and the famous photo of torture where the Iraqi was wearing a black body hood with hands strung up and waterboarding was common. Smiling with dead bodies, thumbs up. All that did create a lot of anger. However, I admit I was a liberal at the time and my view of things is colored by a liberal viewpoint. You are right that 9/11 preceded any response to it. However, I believe it was also the beginning of the idea of Muslim war refugees needing to escape and the West’s sympathy towards Muslims escaping war. Also, because of Bush, Americans were desperate for the hope and change that Obama offered. Bush led us right into the hands of Muslim Barry Hussein. I’m not a huge Bush fan – and he’s a never Trump’er.
Dave from San Antonio says
A ‘joke’. Ha-Ha…
If he’s too dumb not to realize that people don’t find this funny…he’s really not intelligent enough to go to a university. He is a member of islam, which they call the ‘religion of peace’. It is anything but peaceful. No other ‘religion’ has a blood-soaked past or blood-soaked present as islam does. The ultimate goal of islam is a world caliphate under the flag of islam…and they will do ‘anything’ to achieve this. As far as the qur’an goes…I’ve read it cover to cover. That means my dirty infidel hands have caressed the pages of islam’s holiest book…and I did it while eating bacon with my fingers and I didn’t wipe them off before turning the pages. I found that the qur’an contradicts itself fairly frequently and is a manual for hate.
clayusmcret says
So might be hollering “FIRE!” in a theater (a joke)…..but that’s illegal, too.
Dave from San Antonio says
Actually, it is not illegal to yell it, but…you will be held responsible for what happens after you yell it.
gravenimage says
Falsely yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theater actually has been ruled illegal, whether injury specifically results or not.
Anon says
“Allahu Akbar!”
“jk jk man why you gotta be so srs?”
gravenimage says
Grimly hilarious.
somehistory says
Of course he meant it as a joke. Everyone knows all this jihad and isis group and moslim terrorism is just one big, fat, ugly, evil. full of filth and foul, ` joke.
It’s shouldn’t matter one bit that he now claims it was a “joke.” It’s easy to say that after the fact.
It’s easy to recall also the people who have been pulled aside and even arrested for just saying the word “bomb” in line at airports. Not threatening or even joking…just say one is wondering or afraid and if the **right** person hears the word “bomb,’ it means trouble for the one saying it.
We can hope that the prosecutors and judge take his “joke” seriously and give him a lesson he won’t soon forget.
FYI says
“It was all a joke”
I don’t think so,not in islam..
“There are no jokes in islam,there is no humor in islam,there is no fun in islam”
ayatollah khomeini
{There is no Golden either in islam..and no concept of those essential Two chief commandments given to Moses which is funny when we see allah wants to be considered the same as the Biblical God and yet he missed the ‘whole of the law and the teachings of all the prophets”…. and muslims cannot see the problem with THAT}
There ARE jokes in islam,in the sense that islamic ‘scholars’ exist:after centuries of islamic studies they have
discovered that when you do a deep dive{SPLASH!}into the koran,things get ‘very,very awkward’ and there appear to be HOLES in the standard narrative and so the koran is like a Swiss Cheese.islamic dawah folk too are Jokes undermining the islam they are trying to sell especially that well known one with his homoerotic bondage fantasies and that classic bodybuilding overcompensation..
FYI says
Typo
Golden Rule.
Allegedly,there are Golden {other things} amongst islamic dawah folk.
somehistory says
No, jokes, no fun, just threats, lies, murder, rape, extortion, more lies, lust, threats, murder and lying. But, no jokes. Or logic, or virtue.
gravenimage says
Texas: Muslim who made jihad bomb threat in University of Houston Zoom call says it was all a joke
……………….
What could be more hilarious than threatening to murder his schoolmates?
And this is not just “some Arabic shit”–not only the reference to the Islamic State, but also “Abu Qital al Jihadi al Mansur” translates to “father of victory of violent Jihad”, which is *anything* but random.
This thug may not have had a real bomb to back this up, but this is still terrorizing the Infidels.
Sun says
+1
Arun says
Strange joke. Is this why some people call jihadis “jokers”?
Red Pill says
Taqiyya…
Walter Sieruk says
The Qu ‘ran instructs devote Muslims in 9:123. ” O you who believe ! Fight those of the disbelieves who are close to you , and let them find in you …” The use of a bomb is a “disbelievers” is very effective way of showing them harshness.
Islam :what a brutal,cruel violent bloody deadly religion it truly is.